@ryo @ArdainianRight I never had to plug the old consoles back in, they never went away. And I actually don't remember Ubuntu being that light, I started using Linux around 2012, maybe a little before that too, but very briefly. Never used it before Unity, and never used it after it either, other than maybe Ubuntu Server one time, and some of the variants like Lubuntu and Xubuntu, before I knew how to install desktop environments.

Initially used it because I was curious, and then Windows 8 made me even more interested because I knew I would never switch to that. And then Windows 10 made me really start having the "okay, I better get ready to use one of these distributions as my main system" mentality, and then I started learning a lot more, a lot more quickly, and a few years later I was using Gentoo and then experimenting with BSD because in my circles, it was already known that Linux was pozzed.

And Linus getting kicked out by the trannies was the final "okay, this OS is going to die one day" kick in the ass, though I already knew about how awful the foundation was before that. I also accidentally destroyed my Arch system at the time, so I took the opportunity to try a bunch of random OSs. Even tried eComStation (OS/2 successor). Even an AROS distribution (AmigaOS-inspired). Somehow never got to Solaris, but that may actually be viable. Maybe the only viable option that is more niche than BSD, other than maybe Haiku (ran pretty damn well on my ThinkPad, actually).